What do you think I could OC my PC to?

[VeggieX]

Old PC from late 2009. Going to upgrade everything some time later this year but just curious what more I could get out of this right now. Currently I have an easy OC at 3.2ghz. Thanks for any help and advice. It is much appreciated.

My PC specs are as follows;

12gb G-Skill DDR3 1600
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231225

EVGA E758-TR Motherboard
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813188046

Intel Core i7-920 Bloomfield
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115202

Thermaltake SpinQ Performance Series cooler
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835106123

 

[ihog]

Every chip is different. We can't know how far you can push it; the only way to do find that out is to try.

 

[VeggieX]

I guess I more meant to ask what is a reasonably general speed that I could expect.

I tried a little before work and got to 3.4ghz stable.

 

[xHipshotx]

It's best to push it just a little bit, then stress on it with some hard games you have. If it's laggy, underclock it back. But, if it's not then you have overclocked. Remember to make sure that it doesn't overheat, The best way to overclock is turning your fans up.

 

[VeggieX]

I tried a little this morning with a DIMM voltage at 1.6 and CPU VTT at 1.1 with 21x164 and I ran P95 for like 5 minutes to stress the cores and got a BSOD x00000124. What should I do now?

 

[ihog]

Raise the vcore or the VTT/QPI. I'd try the vcore first, since it doesn't look like you raised it at all.

Also, why are you raising the DIMM voltage?

 

[VeggieX]

I dunno I read that it should be within .5 of the VTT so I just raised it .1

I said the VCORE .0125 that was it. Should I try 1.3 or 1.35?

tried 1.325 vcor and 1.125 vtt and was getting 88-90c on each core. @21x165 Too high right?

1.3 vcore and 1.125 vtt and still mid to high 80s


I can't seem to get anything past 21x160 @ 1.2375 vcore and 1.1 vtt to run stable. I thought I had 21x165 @ vcore 1.325 and vtt 1.125 stable but when I woke up this morning and woke up the PC it immediately BSOD.

I am a little hesitant to increases voltages because my temps already get pretty high under 100% load.

 

[VeggieX]

21x170 with VCORE 1.3125 VTT 1.275 was my most recent try. I BSOD x124 before I even started P95. Dunno what to try next.

I've ran 21x160 and 1.3 vcore and 1.1 vtt for years but can't seem to get any more out of it with the little I know.

 

[ihog]

I'm sorry, I would help you out, but I'm not well versed in Nehalem overclocking, and I don't have the time to research it. Good luck, hope someone else can help.

 

[VeggieX]

No problem Ihog. Thanks.

 

[ericjohn004]

It looks like your cooler isn't good enough to go any higher. Those temps are too high for that architecture. If you had an Ivy Bridge those temps would be fine. But it's not.

I'd go down .1 or .2Ghz and just find a stable voltage and leave it there.

 

[VeggieX]

Yea looks like it. Maybe I should have not went with the pretty cooler lol. But with my normal 3.2 i am at 50c at the most. Why would another 200MHZ jump my temps but 30c?